Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith (died May 1754) was a Virginia sailor and a treasurer for the Ohio Company.

Biography
There are virtually no details about Samuel Smith's life. He was suspected to have been born in Virginia and showed some skills as a sailor. He was a treasurer for one of Lawrence Washington's businesses and, by extension, the Templar Order. In July 1752, he was told by Washington to watch over the Precursor Box, an artifact that none of the smartest minds in Europe could decode without the Voynich Manuscript. Smith searched for it in Europe, but failed to find it, and in 1754 he returned home in his schooner Equitas. He was pursued to his encampment at Terra Nova, Newfoundland, by Assassin Order apprentice Shay Cormac, who chased him inland after he docked. Smith saw him and cowered behind his redcoats, but Shay stabbed him in the back with his sword and dagger.